Guapira fragrans(Dum.Cours.) Little

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WFO wfo-0000710720 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Guapira fragrans, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. a Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-02-08 / obs. 61182895
Guapira fragrans, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. b Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61182882
Guapira fragrans, photographed by Kurt Miller
fig. c Kurt Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 201665215
Guapira fragrans, photographed by Kurt Miller
fig. d Kurt Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 140377305
Guapira fragrans, photographed by Kurt Miller
fig. e Kurt Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 201665458
Guapira fragrans, photographed by Kurt Miller
fig. f Kurt Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 140377373
Guapira fragrans, photographed by Heather Mazzaccaro
fig. g Heather Mazzaccaro, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 43655259
Guapira fragrans, photographed by ritirene
fig. h ritirene, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176577945

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
00191038
Filed as
Guapira fragrans (Dum.Cours.) Little
Det. by
R. J. F. Garcia 1994-01-01
Collected
R. G. García G. 1992-01-18
Origin
DO
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Guapira fragrans is native: Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is. ColombiaCubaDominican RepublicHaitiJamaicaPuerto RicoTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela Leeward Is.Netherlands AntillesVenezuelan AntillesWindward Is.
Native distribution of Guapira fragrans, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Colombia CLM SOUTHERN AMERICA
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Haiti HAI
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Netherlands Antilles NLA
Puerto Rico PUE
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN
Venezuelan Antilles VNA
Windward Is. WIN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 260 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 18.3 °C 23.1 °C 24.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.8 °C 28.4 °C 30.8 °C
Annual rainfall 1,171 mm 1,882 mm 2,396 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 151 mm 267 mm 378 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 260 research-grade observations of Guapira fragrans that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 10 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Guapira coriifolia (Heimerl) Lundell
  • Guapira dussii (Standl.) Lundell
  • Pisonia coriifolia Heimerl
  • Pisonia dussii (Standl.) Stehlé
  • Pisonia eucalyptifolia Kunth
  • Pisonia fragrans hort. ex Dum.Cours.
  • Pisonia inermis Jacq.
  • Torrubia coriifolia Standl.
  • Torrubia dussii Standl.
  • Torrubia fragrans (Dum.Cours.) Standl.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.